Dump of interesting things

Apr 30, 2016 11:28 AM

Who the fuck is Thomas the 'Train'?

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I like how these are all listed as facts, yet the Thomas the Train one reads very skeptical ... "apparently..."

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Some of these are pretty obviously wrong.

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You don't restore lost memories, you remember them. You just couldn't before because of lack of (for lack of a better word)key search words

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Cool stuff outside of that, fave forgot

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One of my first and fondest memories apparently happened when I was 2.5 years old. Several family members confirmed this.

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I love the smell of grass in distress...

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Who are they calling for help?

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On the contrary, when you cut a deer open, the smell is not a distress signal, it's because you cut an animal open, and the smell comes out.

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Thomas the Tank Engine.

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Anyone gonna tell me about music on the dark side of the moon? Also insert musical reference here#

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It was VHF Interference on the headsets between the command module and the lunar module.

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That one about memories before age 4 is simply untrue. I have memories from 1 yr old. Have confirmed them with family as being accurate.

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That's my Big Ben TIL post word for word from Reddit! I apologise again for the poorly worded first sentence..

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some of these facts aren't true...

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OP states that these are "interesting things." OP makes no claims regarding their veracity

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So what happens if you are more than 70 miles from the sea in England? Do they arrest you?

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If you are 71 miles from the sea in 1 direction then you will be 69 M in another. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/derbyshire/3090539.stm

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They tell you to go metric.

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Isn't Big Ben the bell inside the tower and not the tower itself?

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You are technically correct, the best kind of correct!

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No, he's factually correct. Calling the whole thing Big Ben is technically correct.

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*turns off steadily increasing volume noise machine at 1,099 dB* Phew... that was a close one.

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The same level as OP's Mom's farts.

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Wouldn't it be logarithmically increasing because decibels are a logarithmic scale, though?

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well it probably compensates for that in some way

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Just because decibel is a logarithmic scale, doesn't mean you can steadily increase along it.

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We don't need people like you around here with your absurdly specific knowledge base. Go on, git.

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To be fair I learned that useless factoid about a week ago in school, lmao.

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#8 is fake... whoever listened to justin bieber suffered brain damage, not repairs

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I'm 25, am I too old to be in the Gentleman's club?

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The first rule of Gentlemans's Club is you do not talk about Gentleman's Club.

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You are old enough to try a different type of gentleman's club.

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That teacher there is a good man.

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Sorry that your dad is gone

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I'm not sure who this Thomas the Train fellow is. However he does look like Thomas the Tank Engine...

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I distinctly remember my first memory when I was four. I woke up one day, and everything before that was black. It was surreal.

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I remember my mom sitting me and my siblings down to tell us our dad had ALS and was going to die (i was 3)

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Could be that your mom told you about that story a couple times as a youngster.

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i have memories from before i was 3. i remember living in my 2 story house and giving my rottweiler a sucker at the bottom of the staircase

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i know it was before i was 3 because we moved to a different house- which i also remember. the previous one is my earliest memory, though.

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I was 2, my brother was just born, my older brother and I were playing with my moms hospital bed. I call BS on everything before 4 is false

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Yeah, I have a hard time believing that one. Especially given that some folks can learn to read and understand complex concepts at 18 mos.

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They can learn at that age, doesn't mean they have conscious memory of it.

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Right, but the ability to form memories happens as young as 18 mos. Though most are surely lost, it seems reasonable that a few might linger

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Any memory you have before the age of 4 is not real? what the hell I remember my 3rd birthday and my family confirmed it. False Information!

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Or false memories. They exist and are easy to form.

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Yo-yo's were not used as weapons. It was a marketing ploy.

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#3 is false. I'm (arguably) still in UK airspace if I'm 71 miles in the air.

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You might arguably be in the UK, but if you want to get technical you wouldn't be "in the air". There's no air that far up.

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Actually anything above 100km (60ish miles) is considered space

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I believe Japan, S Korean, and China all have manufactures making "made in China" stickers, fact not wrong but a bit biased

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I have two memories before the age of four, and when I described them in detail, my parents confirmed them.

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No. The maximum number of moves a Rubik's cube needs to be solved is 20, a number referred to as God's Number.

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If I can't trust one of these images, how can I trust any of them?

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OP makes no claims regarding the veracity of the images. a decent % of them are bullshit. the fun part is figuring out which are accurate

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I remember hitting the windshield when I was two. I was standing up in the front seat with no belt when we hit a car ahead of us, in 1956.

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I remember seeing wallabies when they were taller than me, so that must have been when I was 2.

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I remember killing gooks in Nam when I was 1 and a half. I was born in 87, but I know what I did, what my government made me do.

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I remember climbing out of my crib at nap time at age 2 and my mother beating me for it. Yeah I don't talk to her anymore...

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I fell out of a 2 story window when I was 2 and feel like I remember why I was leaning out and what I was trying to see.

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I had chicken pox & was playing outside. Mom said, "Get in here, you're sick!" I remember a surge of joy & love at the sound of her voice.

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I was around 2 at the time. Not sure why that one stuck with me.

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I remember climbing into mom's aquarium and eating a goldfish when I was two

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Traumatic events are remembered more, pain helps us remember things. Like when they stuck a needle in my dick when I was 2. Remember that.

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I remember falling down two stairwells with a scooter in my hands when I was two and a half years old. Almost scared my mother to death.

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Traumatic events! I remember being 2 years old and gettibg stab in my thumb with a nail by my 5 years old cousin.

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Yeah, I remember being in a hurricane when I was two.

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Well if done perfectly, a Rubik's cube combination can be solved in 1 move.

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What a scrub. I can solve one in zero moves!

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Well is it really solving it then? :)

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If we define "solution" as a sequence of moves that ends with a solved cube, then there is a trivial case with a zero-length sequence. QED!

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I've been mathed.

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"Cellophane, television, the moon landing and World War II". One of these things is not like the others.

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I thought that was rather random.

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That has GOT to be a typo for cellphones, clearly.

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It's not. I remember reading the article on them. No cell phones in 1978, but they were amazed by cellophane.

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They were amazed by translucent white plastic?

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You'd be amazed by many things if you lived in the stone age.

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Yeah, cellophane, television and WW2 are real.

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Nah, you got it mixed up. Moon landing, cellophane, and television are real. It was WWII that didn't happen

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Hows that?

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Idk, it just irritated me that he was implying no moon landing

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What the fuck is cellophane?

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OP probably misspelled "cell phones". Cellophane is a shiny metallic/plastic wrap used in many snack foods, like rice Krispy treats

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Well if they were discovered in 1978 then no one would have knowledge of cell phones. I know what cellophane is I was just following the

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I call bullshit on hot water being heavier than cold, that's junior high physics; also the black hole sounds far-fetched to say the least...

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Hot water is heavier because of the stored energy in the form of heat. Same reason a charged battery weighs more than a dead one

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I think this point was supposed to be more about density, water is strange in that it expands when cooled down instead of contracting.

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Regarding 1100dB shockwave: Remember that dB is a logarithmic scale, so 1100 is a LOT more than 10 x 110dB. The water one is BS, though.

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No that one is actually right if you assume a given amount of volume because of changes in density. However, the molecule itself doesn't

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Cooling down water below 4°C will lower it's density, but everything over 4°C is less dense again.

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*its density

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Why, thank you. I've been typing rather fast and homophones tend to slip through from time to time. Your feedback is much appreciated.

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Mass is a measure of amount of matter, and matter is neither created nor destroyed. Simple physics.

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Not entirely true.

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Black hole one seems reasonable. Every 10 dB is a power of 10 for intensity. 50 is 10x greater than 40. 1000 range is not really possible.

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It's denser, not heavier.

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By E=mc2, 1100 db energy is insane and putting all of that into one area = putting the same amount of mass into that area.

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Considering every time you raise by 3db you are doubling the intensity.. 1100 db is a fuck load of energy. Though black holes don't destroy

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The black hole one is possible but maybe not how they say it is. There was a guy who made small ones using sound waves in his garage.

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Small ones... SMALL ONES?!

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You know, casual pocket black holes. The kind you'd whip up for a Sunday brunch.

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I don't know a lot but wouldn't there be more water molecules in a given volume of cold water since the particles are moving around less?

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Unless its frozen. Then it expands during the change from liquid to solid.

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Regardless, mass is a measurement of amount of matter. Not the amount of matter in a given volume, that's density and is different.

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Because water is a polar molecule, it forms a hydrogen bond when it gets cold, that limits it's ability to contract

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But hot anything has more energy than a cold equivalent, and since energy is directly proportional to mass (E=mc^2) there would be more mass

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As long as "heavier" implies more mass

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the amount of energy for that is not enough to be significant. from freezing to boiling 1kg, the change in energy is 418400J or 4.7E-12 kg.

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so 0.00000000047% of the mass of water - far below what most any scale can measure.

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yes this here. most pertinent response around. thanks bf3c

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It's not heavier, it's less dense, which means there's less mass per unit area.

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*unit volume

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And would mean lighter

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No. The weight would remain the same and volume would grow larger

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Only if the volume is kept constant. If you were heating the water in a pot, the water would expand slightly rather than become heavier.

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The amount of energy produced from a 1100 db shockwave would contain enough energy to form a singularity, not enough to destroy the Galaxy.

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Though it would have a notable effect on every stellar object in our local area.

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Absolutely

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No, it would not. The only force linking us to stellar objects is gravity and that woul dnot change.

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Gravity...wouldn't change...if there was a black hole near us... Wow. I could try to explain how wrong you are, but I'm almost out of charac

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A black hole the mass of earth would exert exactly the same gravity as... earth.

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Hmmm, I wonder what black holes and gravity have to do with each other...?

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Ripped from reddit: The thing about the black hole is just that a sound with that many decibels would require energy on the magnitude (cont)

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But a black hole does not destroy the galaxy. The galaxy does not care how dense a bunch of matter the mass of earth is on a local scale.

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of 10^98 watts/meter^2. That's enough energy, that if it were condensed in the same spot, would produce enough gravity to form a black hole.

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Neat.

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Meow

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The one about the memories isn't true. My mom has a memory from when she was 2. Then she asked my grandmother and she was deemed right.

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I remember my 3rd birthday. My grandma brought in a box and helped me pull out a huge teddy. I lay on it and hugged it. Clear as day memory

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No, it's not true. I have memories from 1 year old that are accurate according to family that were adults at the time. Can see them clearly.

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all memories are false, you are remembering the last time you remembered. that's how memories change over time

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I respectfully disagree. At age 1.5 my very pregnant mother left for the hospital promising to return w/ my baby sister. The next day 1/

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She came home, handed me a stuffed bear and held me while sobbing. I didn't know what was going on, but I sensed it was bad 2/

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Few yrs passed and I asked mu mom why she had given me the bear, but no baby. That was the moment I learned my sis had 3/

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Passed away. If I didn't really remember this, how would I have known to inquire about that specific stuffed bear?

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that only means she knew the information, not that her memory was real

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Not if nobody else had told her the information beforehand.

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I woke up during a surgery when I was 2-3 and Im a pretty sure that horror memory ist true, too. Nobody could've ever told me about that...

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Is the same as remembering a place. And if I'm correct, we don't forget things. It's just buried in our subconscious mind.

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No she had described the house and everything around her. The way you could describe what a person looks like. Remembering people (1/2)

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Why do I have a memory from when I was 3-4 years old that my mother has confirmed on multiple occasions?

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I woke up during a surgery when I was 2-3 and Im a pretty sure that horror memory ist true, too. Nobody could've ever told me about that...

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Same. I remember things that have been confirmed without being told about them or seeing any photographic proof

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I remember details of a certain memory that my parents do not remember until i mention it and they have to think about it

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Most likely because you all kept retelling the story so which causes you to reform the memory.

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Not really a story, but I get your point

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What I believe is my first memory I was never told as a story by my parents or anyone, but I remember it from when I was 2

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I have a bunch of memories from where I was born have to be before 4 because we left the country. Not just incidents but visual memories.1/2

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There's no way they're made up or imagined.I know it's just an anecdote but it's gotta be better than some unattributed "fact" on image site

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